In the quiet of a Chinese hospital last March, a six-year-old girl named Mei died one week after receiving an experimental gene-therapy injection intended to correct a single miswritten letter in her DNA — a condition that, while limiting, would not have taken her life. Her parents paid over $800,000 for a trial whose risks, investigators now say, were never fully disclosed to them. The lead researcher later published findings in Nature without acknowledging her death, and the case has since drawn comparisons to the He Jiankui scandal of 2018, reopening enduring questions about who bears the c
Chinese gene-therapy death concealed in prestigious Nature publication
A six-year-old girl died from a severe immune reaction following experimental gene-therapy, with inadequate parental informed consent.